Thailand’s Big Brother bans Orwell’s 1984

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Thailand has suppressed the film of Nineteen Eighty-Four, George
Orwell’s classic novel of dictatorship and surveillance, in the latest
effort to quash dissent after last month’s military coup.

Members of a film club in the northern city of Chiang Mai cancelled a
screening of the film in an art gallery after police intimidated organisers
with suggestions that it violated the law. Nineteen Eighty-Four has
become a symbol of peaceful opposition to General Prayuth Chan-ocha, who
seized power from Thailand’s elected government last month after months of
violent street demonstrations.

General Prayuth’s junta has imposed martial law and a curfew, banned

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A defaced poster of General Prayuth Chan-ocha during in Bangkok

2014-06-11 00:01:00.0 AP

A defaced poster of General Prayuth Chan-ocha during in Bangkok

2014-06-11 00:01:00.0 AP

General Prayuth seized power from Thailand’s elected government last month